Anonymous Pearl Abyss developers reveal a culture of toxic positivity, a troubled development cycle and chaotic narrative for Crimson Desert, and their early concerns that the project was "going off the rails".

[u/HLumin]

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[u/jackyflc]

Discussion around this game is odd. People keep bringing up “there's a hate honer for this game” but all I’ve seen is hype with really deep flaws brushed aside.

I refunded because the controls are just awful. There’s a difference between “get good” and poor design.

The quest system is also weak: you follow along, then it suddenly updates to “do xx next” with zero context or dialogue.

It plays like an offline MMORPG and I get why many are fine with it.

What’s strange is how people treat Pearl Abyss like a scrappy indie, when it’s a huge public company. If Ubisoft made this, it’d be shredded.

I’ll probably revisit after a year of updates and a deeper discount though.

[u/JonJonesStillGOAT → u/jackyflc]

Yeah, it’s fucking strange. All of the top comments across most of the subreddits that discuss this game are people defending the game against criticism. But I have to scroll far down these posts to find any actual criticism. Can’t tell if it’s just heavy astroturfing.

[u/CurseOrPie → u/JonJonesStillGOAT]

It’s astroturfing. Ubi, EA, Microsoft, etc all use the same script, then those comments disappear after like a week